Vancouver's Chinatown
：Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
( McGill-Queens Studies in Ethnic History )
Publication subTitle ：Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Publication series ：McGill-Queens Studies in Ethnic History
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 1991
E-ISBN: 9780773562974
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773508446
Subject： K711.8 national ambition
Keyword： 伦理学(道德哲学)
Language： ENG
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Description
Popular wisdom maintains that the colourful Chinese quarters of Canadian, American, and Australian cities owe their existence to the generations of Chinese immigrants who have made their lives there. The restaurants, pagodas, and neon lights are seen as intrinsically connected to the Chinese and their immigrant experience in the West. Kay Anderson argues, however, that "Chinatown" is a Western construction, illustrative of a process of cultural domination that gave European settlers in North America and Australia the power to define and shape the district according to their own images and interests.